Soccer school management software
Running a soccer school with a notebook and a few spreadsheets? That is how most small schools start. Cantera Soccer is soccer school software built for that first digital step: set up your season, age categories, and players in minutes, let fees generate automatically, and keep everything in one place. Plans start at $39.99 USD per month, with a 15-day free trial and no credit card required.
How to run a soccer school: the same admin work as a big academy
Whether you call it a school or an academy, running a soccer school means the same daily work as a large academy — just with fewer hands. You collect monthly fees, track who showed up to practice, keep every player's information available, and notify parents when a schedule changes. The difference is not the task list; it is the size of the team doing it. Often, that team is just you.
That is why generic tools fall short: an enterprise CRM is too much, and Excel stops working once you pass 20 or 30 players. A small school needs a system that speaks its language — age categories, teams, monthly fees, attendance — and that you can set up without technical knowledge or an IT person.
Soccer school software you can set up in one day
Cantera Soccer includes a 13-step setup guide with estimated minutes and a progress bar, so you always know what comes next. The first three steps — creating your active season, your first age category, and your first team — add up to an estimated 7 minutes. Then you configure your payment concepts (3 minutes), adjust fee amounts (2 minutes), and add your coach (3 minutes). No single step takes more than 5 estimated minutes.
You do not have to enter everything on day one. The guide marks each completed step, shows your progress percentage, and suggests the next step with its estimated time. Start today with your season, categories, and teams, register your players, and leave billing setup for tomorrow — your progress is saved and you pick up right where you left off.
Automatic age categories by birth year
Soccer schools group kids by age, and maintaining those lists by hand is a constant source of errors. In Cantera Soccer you define each category's birth-year range once, and the system assigns every player automatically by checking their date of birth against the category ranges of your active season.
Did a player land in the wrong category? It is almost always a mistyped birth date or overlapping ranges, and both take seconds to fix. You can also create a category's first team on the same screen, selecting the coach in charge — category and team ready in a single step.
Collect monthly fees without chasing parents
Every family in your school can have its own billing cadence: weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Fees generate automatically every night: weekly fees generate on Sunday or Monday and are due Friday; biweekly fees generate on the 12th to the 15th and the 27th to the 30th, due on the 15th and the 30th; monthly fees generate starting 3 days before the collection day you set.
The system never duplicates a fee for the same period, so no family gets charged twice. And when a family pays in installments, you record partial payments: the fee stays pending and shows the remaining balance until it is settled, with every installment on record. No more flipping through a notebook to see who owes what.
How much soccer school software costs and how to start today
Cantera Soccer's Basic plan costs $39.99 USD per month and includes up to 40 players, 1 admin, 1 coordinator, and 3 coaches, with unlimited parent accounts. For a school taking its first digital step, that covers the essentials: players, categories, teams, matches, and billing with cadences. When you need training sessions with attendance tracking, the Amateur plan ($49.99 USD, up to 80 players) includes them, and Pro ($59.99 USD) adds unlimited players.
Starting today is simple: create your account with a 15-day free trial, no credit card required, and import your players from Excel. The platform is 100% web-based — nothing to install, just an internet connection and a browser, from your phone at the field or your computer at the office. When the trial ends, you decide if the Basic plan fits your school.